Zero Trust Contracts

Zero Trust
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Zero Trust skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Zero Trust over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 416 531 714
Rank change year-on-year +115 +183 -24
Contract jobs citing Zero Trust 171 167 134
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.39% 0.30% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% 0.34% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 102 89
10th Percentile £544 £450 £495
25th Percentile £625 £514 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -3.85% +4.84%
75th Percentile £825 £698 £738
90th Percentile £850 £738 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £750 £625 £565
% change year-on-year +20.00% +10.62% -3.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 12 3
10th Percentile - £66.00 £43.18
25th Percentile - £66.56 £46.49
Median hourly rate - £70.00 £52.00
Median % change year-on-year - +34.62% -
75th Percentile - - £59.63
90th Percentile - £70.23 £64.20
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £70.00 £52.00
% change year-on-year - +34.62% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Zero Trust falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,178 49,770 79,013
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.13% 89.61% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,737 34,458 55,587
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,579 1,678 1,852
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.96 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%
75th Percentile £61.28 £65.00 £50.15
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £34.90 £21.00
% change year-on-year +9.23% +66.18% -

Zero Trust
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Zero Trust as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Zero Trust in the UK

Zero Trust
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Zero Trust.

Daily rate trend for Zero Trust in the UK

Zero Trust
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Zero Trust over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Zero Trust in the UK

Zero Trust
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Zero Trust.

Hourly rate trend for Zero Trust in the UK

Zero Trust
Top 11 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Zero Trust within the UK over the 6 months to 12 June 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +84 154 £700 +12.00% 34
UK excluding London +75 116 £750 +20.00% 18
South West +32 46 £650 +10.64% 1
North West +46 45 £850 +50.91% 3
North of England +45 45 £850 +50.71% 6
London +46 36 £625 +1.21% 15
Work from Home +73 34 £700 +12.00% 12
South East +6 15 £715 +2.44% 2
Scotland +54 7 £775 -
West Midlands +19 3 £750 +62.16% 2
Midlands +15 3 £750 +42.86% 5

Zero Trust
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 10 (5.85%) Confluence
2 2 (1.17%) nginx
2 2 (1.17%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (5.85%) Microsoft Office
1 10 (5.85%) MS Visio
2 9 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (5.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 40 (23.39%) PaaS
2 39 (22.81%) SaaS
3 32 (18.71%) Azure
3 32 (18.71%) IaaS
4 29 (16.96%) AWS
5 28 (16.37%) Cloud Computing
6 8 (4.68%) GCP
7 6 (3.51%) Cloudflare
8 5 (2.92%) Entra ID
9 4 (2.34%) OCI
10 3 (1.75%) Azure Sentinel
10 3 (1.75%) GitHub
10 3 (1.75%) Microsoft 365
11 2 (1.17%) Amazon EKS
11 2 (1.17%) Amazon S3
11 2 (1.17%) Power Platform
12 1 (0.58%) Azure DevOps
12 1 (0.58%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 60 (35.09%) VPN
2 55 (32.16%) Firewall
3 43 (25.15%) WAN
4 36 (21.05%) LAN
5 13 (7.60%) Network Security
6 8 (4.68%) PBX
6 8 (4.68%) VoIP
7 7 (4.09%) MPLS
8 5 (2.92%) SD-WAN
8 5 (2.92%) Unified Communications
9 4 (2.34%) Kerberos
9 4 (2.34%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (1.17%) Cisco IOS
10 2 (1.17%) DNS
10 2 (1.17%) IPsec
10 2 (1.17%) SSL
10 2 (1.17%) TCP/IP
10 2 (1.17%) tcpdump
10 2 (1.17%) Wireless
10 2 (1.17%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.92%) NoSQL
1 5 (2.92%) SQL Server
2 4 (2.34%) Data Lake
2 4 (2.34%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.58%) RDBMS
3 1 (0.58%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (4.68%) JIRA
1 8 (4.68%) Rational DOORS
2 1 (0.58%) Jenkins
General
1 50 (29.24%) Public Sector
2 20 (11.70%) Social Skills
3 14 (8.19%) Finance
4 10 (5.85%) Banking
5 9 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (5.26%) Telecoms
6 7 (4.09%) Digital Economy
7 6 (3.51%) Financial Institution
7 6 (3.51%) Legal
8 3 (1.75%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.75%) Retail
9 2 (1.17%) Military
10 1 (0.58%) Arabic Language
10 1 (0.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.58%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 126 (73.68%) Architect
2 50 (29.24%) Technical Architect
3 38 (22.22%) Lead
3 38 (22.22%) Lead Architect
4 33 (19.30%) Network Architect
5 32 (18.71%) Technical Leader
6 21 (12.28%) Security Architect
7 13 (7.60%) Solutions Architect
8 11 (6.43%) Senior
9 10 (5.85%) Cloud Architect
10 9 (5.26%) Network Engineer
11 7 (4.09%) Network Specialist
12 6 (3.51%) Data Engineer
12 6 (3.51%) Security Engineer
12 6 (3.51%) Senior Architect
13 5 (2.92%) Azure Architect
13 5 (2.92%) Cloud Engineer
13 5 (2.92%) Digital Architect
13 5 (2.92%) Digital Technical Architect
13 5 (2.92%) Senior Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (26.90%) Node.js
2 9 (5.26%) OpenID
3 7 (4.09%) LDAP
3 7 (4.09%) SAML
4 6 (3.51%) SailPoint
5 5 (2.92%) OAuth
6 4 (2.34%) Kafka
6 4 (2.34%) Oracle Fusion
7 3 (1.75%) Regular Expression
7 3 (1.75%) XACML
8 2 (1.17%) React Native
9 1 (0.58%) JWT
9 1 (0.58%) REST
9 1 (0.58%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 39 (22.81%) Public Cloud
2 34 (19.88%) Data Centre
3 19 (11.11%) Security Posture
4 11 (6.43%) Product Ownership
5 10 (5.85%) Hybrid Cloud
5 10 (5.85%) PKI
5 10 (5.85%) Video Conferencing
6 8 (4.68%) Blackberry
7 7 (4.09%) Mobile App
8 6 (3.51%) Private Cloud
9 5 (2.92%) Blockchain
9 5 (2.92%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 5 (2.92%) Legacy Applications
9 5 (2.92%) Management Information System
10 4 (2.34%) IoT
11 3 (1.75%) Cloud Native
12 2 (1.17%) Shadow IT
13 1 (0.58%) Operational Technology
13 1 (0.58%) Virtual Team
13 1 (0.58%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 52 (30.41%) Windows
2 44 (25.73%) Android
2 44 (25.73%) Apple iOS
2 44 (25.73%) Windows Server
3 8 (4.68%) Linux
4 4 (2.34%) zOS
5 2 (1.17%) Mac OS
5 2 (1.17%) Mac OS X
5 2 (1.17%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.58%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (38.60%) Security Architecture
2 49 (28.65%) Mobile Device Management
3 47 (27.49%) CI/CD
4 46 (26.90%) Risk Management
5 43 (25.15%) Design Patterns
6 42 (24.56%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
6 42 (24.56%) Threat Intelligence
7 41 (23.98%) DevOps
8 38 (22.22%) Agile
9 31 (18.13%) Network Management
10 30 (17.54%) Open Source
10 30 (17.54%) Roadmaps
11 27 (15.79%) Business Strategy
12 25 (14.62%) Microservices
13 20 (11.70%) Cybersecurity
14 19 (11.11%) Network Architecture
15 18 (10.53%) Strategic Roadmap
16 16 (9.36%) Containerisation
17 13 (7.60%) Enterprise Architecture
17 13 (7.60%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (5.85%) Python
2 6 (3.51%) PowerShell
3 4 (2.34%) Java
4 3 (1.75%) JavaScript
4 3 (1.75%) Perl
5 2 (1.17%) Kotlin
6 1 (0.58%) C
Qualifications
1 91 (53.22%) Security Cleared
2 49 (28.65%) DV Cleared
2 49 (28.65%) SC Cleared
3 15 (8.77%) Degree
4 14 (8.19%) Cisco Certification
5 11 (6.43%) CISSP
6 8 (4.68%) CCIE
7 7 (4.09%) HND
7 7 (4.09%) TOGAF Certification
8 5 (2.92%) CCNP
9 4 (2.34%) CISM
10 3 (1.75%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 2 (1.17%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 2 (1.17%) AWS Certification
11 2 (1.17%) Azure Certification
11 2 (1.17%) CCSP
12 1 (0.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (7.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (5.85%) NIST
3 4 (2.34%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 4 (2.34%) NCSC
3 4 (2.34%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.75%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (1.75%) GRC
5 2 (1.17%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.58%) COBIT
6 1 (0.58%) GDPR
System Software
1 8 (4.68%) Active Directory
1 8 (4.68%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (2.92%) Firmware
3 3 (1.75%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (1.75%) vSphere
4 2 (1.17%) Squid
4 2 (1.17%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (1.17%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.17%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 6 (3.51%) Single Sign-On
2 4 (2.34%) Ansible
2 4 (2.34%) PingFederate
2 4 (2.34%) Terraform
3 2 (1.17%) HAProxy
3 2 (1.17%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.17%) NetIQ Identity Manager
4 1 (0.58%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (0.58%) CASB
4 1 (0.58%) Consul
4 1 (0.58%) FortiGate
4 1 (0.58%) Nessus
4 1 (0.58%) SCCM
Vendors
1 30 (17.54%) Microsoft
2 21 (12.28%) Cisco
3 13 (7.60%) Google
4 11 (6.43%) F5
4 11 (6.43%) Fortinet
5 10 (5.85%) Juniper
5 10 (5.85%) Zscaler
6 9 (5.26%) Citrix
6 9 (5.26%) VMware
7 8 (4.68%) Atlassian
7 8 (4.68%) Avaya
7 8 (4.68%) Ericsson
7 8 (4.68%) IBM
7 8 (4.68%) Nokia
7 8 (4.68%) Ribbon
8 6 (3.51%) CyberArk
8 6 (3.51%) Oracle
9 5 (2.92%) Apple
9 5 (2.92%) CheckPoint
9 5 (2.92%) Splunk